Research Article

Coupled Dynamics of Vehicle-Bridge Interaction System Using High Efficiency Method

Table 2

Computational schema of Newmark’s method using (9).

AlgorithmDiscretization of the beam as lumped masses (the flexibility method)Discretization of the beam as finite elements (the stiffness method)

1.0 initialization
 1.1
 2.2 set
 3.3 calculate
 4.4 calculate
O (1)O (1)

2.0 loop
 for i = 1 to
 5.5 calculate
 6.6 calculate
 7.7 calculate
 8.8 calculate
 End